Robertson Writers Groupat Robertson Branch Library, LAPL – In-Person & Online Hybrid Event
Calling all writers! The Robertson Writers Group meets every Monday. Get those creative juices flowing and join the group as everyone shares their work and gives feedback.
This group mostly meets in person, but email rbrtsn@lapl.org if you’d prefer to join via Zoom.
NOTE: See site for link and details.
Where: West Valley Regional Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Monday the 19th
Time: 10 am
Address: Online Event (see site)
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/world-literature-book-club-26
Black History Zinesat Hyde Park Miriam Matthews Branch Library, LAPL – In-Person Kids Event
Visit Hyde Park Branch Library during February 2024 and pick up a take-home packet to create your own mini magazine about 4 different heroes from Black History.
NOTE: See site for link and details.
Where: Hyde Park Miriam Matthews Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Monday the 26th
Time: 11 am
Address: 2205 W. Florence Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90043
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/kids-take-home-craft-black-history-zines
Big Red Book Discussion: Can’t We All About Something More Pleasant at Mark Twain Branch Library, LAPL – In-Person Kids Event
Book club discussion (Teen and Adults combined). Please join us as we discuss the Big Read title Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? by Roz Chast.
There are 10 free copies available while supplies last.
NOTE: See site for link and details.
Where: Mark Twain Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Monday the 26th
Time: 4 pm
Address: 9621 S. Figueroa St., Los Angeles, CA 90003
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/big-read-book-discussion-16
Big Red Book Discussion: Can’t We All About Something More Pleasant at Mark Twain Branch Library, LAPL – In-Person Kids Event
Book club discussion (Teen and Adults combined). Please join us as we discuss the Big Read title Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? by Roz Chast.
There are 10 free copies available while supplies last.
NOTE: See site for link and details.
Where: Mark Twain Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Monday the 26th
Time: 4 pm
Address: 9621 S. Figueroa St., Los Angeles, CA 90003
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/big-read-book-discussion-16
Mar Vista Book Club: Books and Communi-Tea at Mar Vista Branch Library, LAPL – In-Person Event
Mar Vista Book Club welcomes all readers to our book club; no sign-up is required.
For each month’s title, please contact the branch. Copies of the book are available at the Reference Desk for check-out.
Please note that the Mar Vista Book Club meets in person.
NOTE: See site for book title and details.
Where: Mar Vista Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Monday the 26th
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: 12006 Venice Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90066
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/mar-vista-book-club-books-and-communi-tea
Book Club: Black Cake via Sherman Oaks Martin Pollard Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Sherman Oaks Book Club participants will discuss Black Cake by author Charmaine Wilkerson.
In present-day California, Eleanor Bennett’s death leaves behind a puzzling inheritance for her two children, Byron and Benny: a black cake made from a family recipe with a long history and a voice recording. In her message, Eleanor shares a tumultuous story about a headstrong young swimmer who escapes her island home under suspicion of murder. The heartbreaking tale Eleanor unfolds, the secrets she still holds back, and the mystery of a long-lost child challenge everything the siblings thought they knew about their lineage and themselves.
Can Byron and Benny reclaim their once-close relationship, piece together Eleanor’s true history, and fulfill her final request to “share the black cake when the time is right”? Will their mother’s revelations bring them back together or leave them feeling more lost than ever?
RSVP:
Please email shrmno@lapl.org for the Zoom link.
NOTE: See site for link and details.
Where: Sherman Oaks Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Monday the 26th
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/sherman-oaks-book-club-black-cake-charmaine-wilkerson
R.U.P.O. Open Mic Is Back! At Back to the Grind in Riverside – In-Person Event
RUPO Open Mic is back every Monday Night at Back to the Grind in Riverside.
Every Monday at a new time- 7pm to 9pm. Sign-ups are at 6:30pm and in person only, $4 cash admission. See you then!
NOTE: See site for link and details.
Where: Back to the Grind, Riverside
Date: Monday the 26th
Time: 7 pm – 9 pm (Sign-ups at 6:30 pm)
Address: 3575 University Ave. Riverside, CA 92501
Website: https://www.facebook.com/backtothegrind/photos
Dulcé Sloan & Hello Friends: Stories of Dating, Destiny, and Day Jobs at Book Soup – In-Person Event
Dulcé Sloan will discuss her first memoir, Hello Friends: Stories of Dating, Destiny, and Day Jobs.
Dulcé Sloan’s first memoir is organized into essays from her life. From a childhood moving between cities, starting her own business selling toys at a Miami flea market, to being a Black kid in a predominately white school, she’s always used her masterful wit to challenge the status quo. Her purpose in comedy unfolded while navigating clubs and the set of The Daily Show. Have you ever dated an adult who roller skated, or went out with a mechanic just to get free auto service? Yup, she’s got that story for you. Her stories are both wildly entertaining and culturally resonant.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Monday the 26th
Time: 7 pm – 8:30 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Website: https://www.booksoup.com/event/dulc%C3%A9-sloan
At Skylight: Sarah Ruiz-Grossman, with Traci Thomas & A Fire So Wild at Skylight Books – In-Person Event
Sarah Ruiz-Grossman, in conversation with Traci Thomas, will present and discuss her debut novel, A Fire So Wild, a story about wildfire creeping toward Berkeley, California, igniting tensions as characters from all walks of life confront the injustices lying beneath the city’s surface.
Alternating among a colorful cast of characters, A Fire So Wild is a timely, tautly paced novel that questions why when everything burns, not everyone is left with scars.
Sarah Ruiz-Grossman is a writer and former reporter at HuffPost, where she covered the climate crisis and other social justice issues. She lives in California with her husband and their pit bull.
Traci Thomas is the creator and host of The Stacks, a podcast about books and the way they shape culture. Traci is also a monthly contributor for NPR’s Here & Now, and she writes a bookish advice column on shereads.com.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Skylight
Date: Monday the 26th
Time: 7 pm – 8:30 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Phillip B. Williams, with Angela Flournoy, & OURS at Vroman’s – In-Person Event
Phillip B. Williams, in conversation with Angela Flournoy, will discuss OURS: A Novel.
This story is about an enigmatic woman named Saint, a fearsome conjuror who, in the 1830s, annihilates plantations all over Arkansas to rescue the people enslaved there. She brings those she has freed to a haven of her own creation: a town just north of St. Louis, magically concealed from outsiders, named Ours.
Set over the course of four decades and steeped in a rich tradition of American literature informed by Black surrealism, mythology, and spirituality, Ours is a stunning exploration of the possibilities and limitations of love and freedom.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Vroman’s
Date: Monday the 26th
Time: 7 pm – 8:30 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91001
Website: https://www.vromansbookstore.com/Phillip-B-Williams-discusses-Ours
Monday Night Fiction Workshop at Beyond Baroque – Online Zoom Event
This free Monday Night Community Writing Workshop led by Raquel Baker is a workshop in which participants are asked to bring copies of 2-3 pages of fiction to read, and to use for critique and discussion. Registration is required.
Raquel Baker earned a PhD in English Literary Studies from the University of Iowa and an MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Postcolonial and Transnational Literatures at California State University Channel Islands, teaching courses on creative writing and contemporary African literatures. Raquel has published poetry in Africology and The Arrow; fiction in Enculturation, The Daily Palette, The Womanist, and Crux; and non-fiction in Little Village; and has done readings with the Ventura County Poetry project. Raquel lives for talking about all things about the craft and social meanings of literature!
Where: Beyond Baroque – Online event
Date: Monday the 26th
Time: 7:30 pm – 10 pm
Address: Zoom Online Event (see site)
Website: https://www.beyondbaroque.org/free_workshops or https://www.eventbrite.com/e/monday-night-fiction-workshop-tickets-845875425167
An Evening with Billy Dee Williams & What Have We Here? at Live Talks LA at New Roads School – In-Person & Online Hybrid Event
Live Talks LA presents An Evening with Billy Dee Williams and his memoir, What Have We Here? Portrait of a Life.
In this memoir Billy Dee Williams recalls his remarkable life of nearly eight decades—a heralded actor who’s played the roles he wanted, from Brian’s Song to Lando in the Star Wars universe—unchecked by the racism and typecasting so rife in the mostly all-white industry in which he triumphed.
Billy Dee Williams was born and raised in Harlem in 1937. He studied painting, first at the High School of Music and Art with fellow student Diahann Carroll, and then at the National Academy of Fine Art, before setting out to pursue acting with Herbert Berghof, Stella Adler, and Sidney Poitier. He has starred in forty movies, seven Broadway plays, and has made more than forty television shows and TV movies combined.
NOTE: See site for tickets and details.
Where: Live Talks LA at New Roads School. Ann and Jerry Moss Theatre
Date: Monday the 26th
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: 3131 Olympic Blvd., Santa Monica, CA 90404
Website: https://livetalksla.org/events/billy-dee-williams/
Venice Branch Book Club: Trust via Venice-Abbot Kinney Memorial Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Venice Book Club participants will discuss the Pulitzer Prize winning novel, Trust, by author Hernan Diaz.
RSVP:
Please email venice@lapl.org for the Zoom link.
NOTE: See site for link and details.
Where: Venice-Abbot Kinney Memorial Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Tuesday the 27th
Time: 5 pm
Address: Online Event (see site)
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/venice-book-club-1
Sharing True Stories via Westwood Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Come share something that happened to you. You can read a piece that you wrote or speak off-the-cuff. You are also welcome to just listen. The stories can be funny, sad, or simply slice-of-life. This is your opportunity to express yourself!
RSVP:
To receive a Zoom invitation, please contact wwood@lapl.org.
NOTE: See site for link and details.
Where: Westwood Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Tuesday the 27th
Time: 6 pm
Address: Online Event (see site)
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/life-stories-open-mic
Altadena Poet Laureates Present: Hazel Harrison, Teres Mei Chuc, Eiline Lipton, and Thelma Reyna at Altadena Main Library – In-Person Event
Join us for a Poets Laureate reading with poets Hazel Harrison, Teresa Mei Chuc, Elline Lipkin, and Thelma Reyna.
Hazel Clayton Harrison is an author, editor, educator and a storyteller. A retiree from corporate America, she is a co-owner of Jahlight Media (jahlightmedia.com), an editing, training, and publishing company. She served as a 2018-2020 poet laureate for the Altadena Library District and is a Pushcart Prize nominee. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in numerous publications. She is the author of a children’s book, The Story of Christmas Tree Lane, a memoir, Crossing the River Ohio, and a book of poetry and prose, Down Freedom Road. As a member of the Pasadena Rose Poets, she recites poetry at local venues. Additionally, she does public speaking and facilitates workshops at writing conferences and seminars. IG/FB @hcharrison11
Teresa Mei Chuc was born in Sài Gòn, Việt Nam and fled her Vietnamese homeland with her mother and brother shortly after the Việt Nam War, spending three and a half months in a freight boat stranded in the South China Sea before being rescued. Teresa is the author of three full-length collections of poetry, Invisible Light (2018), Keeper of the Winds (2014) and Red Thread (2012). Her poetry chapbook, Incidental Takes, was published by Hummingbird Press in 2023. She teaches literature and writing at a public school in Los Angeles. IG @tue_my_chuc • FB: Tuệ Mỹ Chúc
Elline Lipkin is a poet and academic. Her first book, The Errant Thread, was chosen by Eavan Boland for the Kore Press First Book Award. Her second, Girls’ Studies, was published by Seal Press. Her poetry has been published in many contemporary journals and she has been in residence at Yaddo, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Dorland Mountain Arts Colony and Yefe Nof. She teaches writing workshops and is currently a Research Scholar with UCLA’s Center for the Study of Women. From 2016-2018, she served as Poet Laureate of Altadena and co-edited the Altadena Poetry Review. Her website is http://www.ellinelipkin.com.
Thelma T. Reyna’s books have collectively won 22 national and international literary awards. She has written 6 books, edited 3 anthologies comprising about 200 authors, and co-edited the anthology, Doctor Poets & Other Healers (2022). Her fiction, poetry, and nonfiction have appeared in literary journals, anthologies, textbooks, blogs, and regional media for over 30 years. She was Poet Laureate 2014-2016 in Altadena, CA, and was a Pushcart Prize Nominee in Poetry in 2017. She is the Founder/Chief Editor of the award-winning Golden Foothills Press in Pasadena, Calif. Her Ph.D. is from UCLA. Contact Thelma at http://www.goldenfoothillspress.com or at Thelma.reyna@ymail.com
NOTE: See site for link and details.
Where: Altadena Main Library, Community Room
Date: Tuesday the 27th
Time: 6 pm – 8 pm
Address: 600 E. Mariposa St., Altadena CA 91001
Website: https://www.altadenalibrary.org/programs/?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D169274054
Phy-Sci Book Club: Infinite Powers at Cellar Door Bookstore – In-Person Event
Book Club participants will discuss Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe, by author Steven Strogatz.
From preeminent math personality and author of The Joy of x, a brilliant and endlessly appealing explanation of calculus—how it works and why it makes our lives immeasurably better.
Steven Strogatz is the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Applied Mathematics at Cornell University. A renowned teacher and one of the world’s most highly cited mathematicians, he has blogged about math for the New York Times and The New Yorker and has been a frequent guest on Radiolab and Science Friday. He is the author of Sync and The Joy of x. He lives in Ithaca, New York.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Cellar Door Bookstore
Date: Tuesday the 27th
Time: 6 pm
Address: 473 E. Alessandro Blvd., Suite B, Riverside, CA 92508
Website: https://www.cellardoorbookstore.com/event/phy-sci-book-club-infinite-powers
Mystery Book Club: Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line at Playa Vista Branch Library, LAPL – In-Person Event
Mystery Book Club participants will discuss Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line, by author Deepa Anappara.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Playa VIsta Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Tuesday the 27th
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: 6400 Playa Vista Dr., Los Angeles, CA 90094
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/mystery-book-club-46
Michelle Biton & The Instant Anxiety Solution at Diesel, A Bookstore – In-Person Event
Michelle Briton will discuss her book, The Instant Anxiety Solution: 5 Simple Steps to Quiet Your Mind and Achieve Calm.
The Instant Anxiety Solution is an essential resource for every person suffering from anxiety featuring helpful hacks to reduce anxiety, manage emotions more effectively, improve life satisfaction and cope with stress better.
The essential steps are as follows:
Step #1 – Activate Your Parasympathetic Nervous System
Step #2 – Label “What” You Are Feeling
Step #3 – Acknowledge That Emotions Are Temporary
Step #4 – Remember to AVOID Layering Your Thoughts & Emotions
Step #5 – Move Forward and Take Action.
Michelle Biton is a coach, author, entrepreneur, and health educator and is considered a leader and innovator in the health and wellness field. Michelle has her Master’s Degree in Holistic Nutrition, Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology and a Certificate in Kinesiology, Health and Fitness Studies. She has been invited to write for the Encyclopedia of Natural Health, Alive Magazine, a variety of online publications, and has been featured on various television, radio shows and magazines as a health and fitness expert. Michelle previously authored the Pregnancy Without Pounds series, which were books focused on the fitness and well-being of pregnant moms.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Diesel, A Bookstore
Date: Tuesday the 27th
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: 225 26th St., Suite 33., Santa Monica, CA 90402
Website: https://www.dieselbookstore.com/event/Michelle-Biton-Author-signing
Conchas y Café Zine Writing Workshop via DSTL Arts – In-Person Event Conchas y Café
Conchas y Café is a DSTL Arts bilingual community writing workshop series for adults that produces a biannual zine by the same name, featuring artwork and creative writing produced by our community and program participants.
The goal of Conchas y Café is to bring together our community under the arts, building skills and arts-literacy, so that more adults may appreciate the cultural and economic value the arts bring to our lives. The content taught through this workshop series is primarily for new and emerging poets and writers, or people returning to creative writing after a long-term absence from the craft.
The Conchas y Café workshop series spans 15 weeks, and is an ongoing program offered every trimester. Our program participants write on a new theme for their zine every trimester and celebrate its release with a public reading.
Enrollment via Google Classroom required for workshop participation and full access to session handouts.
For any questions regarding Conchas y Café, feel free to contact us directly by email at Info@DSTLArts.org.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: DSTL Arts
Date: Tuesday the 27th (through April the 30th)
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: Online Event (see site)
Website: https://www.dstlarts.org/conchasycafezine
Lawrence Grobel & Hustle: The Making of a Freelance Writer at Book Soup – In-Person Event
Lawrence Grobel will present and discuss his book,Hustle The Making of a Freelance Writer.
Lawrence Grobel writes:
Freelancers are people willing to take risks, willing to gamble that they can succeed without a steady paycheck. Most of the people I written about have had the confidence to believe in themselves, and most can point to how they maneuvered down precarious and uncertain paths. In my career as a freelance writer, I’ve had moments of doubt. I’ve suffered rejections and cancellations. But there were crossroads along the way that allowed me to continue pursuing my dream of working for myself, doing what I wanted to do, and figuring out how to survive. Freelancing is a lifestyle.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Tuesday the 27th
Time: 7 pm – 8:30 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Website: https://www.booksoup.com/event/lawrence-grobel
Spirited Awake: A Memoir Reading Group & Who Is Wellness For? at North Figueroa Bookshop – In-Person Event
Spirited Awake Book Club participants will discuss Who Is Wellness For? by author Fariha Roisin.
Calling all professional diarists, chronic oversharers, subconscious decoders, fool’s journeyers, prophetic dreamers. Spirited Awake is our newest memoir book club launching February 27th, 7 PM at North Fig Bookshop.
No better place to start, than with Who is Wellness For? Part memoir and part research backed investigation into how personal healing and wellness is deeply intertwined with decolonization and anti-capitalism. The next book will be chosen by you!
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: North Figueroa Bookshop
Date: Tuesday the 27th
Time: 7 pm – 8:30 pm
Address: 6040 N. Figueroa St., Los Angeles, CA 90042
Website: https://northfigbookshop.com/event/#calendar-8a0f87f6-17d6-4f10-9815-04df4c8251ba-event-ls58r5fd
Non-Fiction Book Club: Poverty, by America atpages: a bookstore – In-Person Event
Non-Fiction Book Club participants will discuss Poverty, by America, by author Matthew Desmond.
Non-Fiction Book Club meets generally on the 4th Tuesday of the month and will discuss Poverty, by America, by author Matthew Demond, with discussion led by Mark Polak.
The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a “provocative and compelling” (NPR) argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: pages: a bookstore
Date: Tuesday the 27th
Time: 7 pm – 8:30 pm
Address: 904 Manhattan Ave., Manhattan Beach, CA 900266
Website: https://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/non-fiction-book-club-16
Book Release Event: Panel Discussion & Editors Spill the Tea at Stories Books & Coffee – In-Person Event
Editors Spill the Tea is an insider’s look at poetry, activism, and Community among the minds and lives of poets and editors. A poetry reading will be followed by an audience Q&A and panel discussion moderated by poet Karla Lamb.
Viva Padilla is a poet and the founding editor of sin cesar, an independent print literary journal founded in South Central, Los Angeles. She is a first-generation Chicana, a daughter of immigrants who crossed the border from Colima, Mexico. She is the author of INSUMISA, a hybrid collection of bilingual-literary work.
Jonathan Fostar is the founder and editor-in-chief of Dream Boy Book Club, publishing books for people who don’t read since 2019.
Adam Stutz is the author of Transcript (Cooper Dillon Books, 2017) and The Scales (White Stag Publishing, 2018). His work has appeared in various print and online publications including The Equalizer: Second Series, The Cultural Society, A Sharp Piece of Awesome, Prelude, Be About It, Deluge, Dum Dum Zine, The Pinch, Where is the River, Dream Pop, Cover, Ghost Proposal and can also be found at stutzwrites.com.
Karla Lamb (she/ella) is a queer Chicana poet born in Mexico City, with work in Tilted House, Cobra Milk, Rejected Lit, A Women’s Thing Magazine, YES Poetry, Coal Hill Review, Fine Print Press, Dream Boy Book Club, Word Riot, Pittsburgh Poetry Journal, & elsewhere. Her work has been twice nominated for the Best of the Net Anthology, & translated in Revista La Peste. Lamb hosts Verse4Verse, a monthly queer poetry open mic in Los Angeles. More at karlalamb.com& @vinylowl
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Stories Books & Coffee
Date: Tuesday the 27th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 1716 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90026
Website: https://storiesla.com/events
Sci-Fi Fantasy Book Club: The City We Became at Village Well Books & Coffee – In-Person Event
Sci-Fi Fantasy Book Club participants will discuss The City We Became by author NK Jemisin.
On the fourth Tuesday of every month, participants come together and discuss a story that falls within the realms of either science fiction or fantasy (or sometimes both!). To join our emailing list, reach out to events@villagewell.com. Hope to see ya there!
Where: Village Well Books & Coffee
Date: Tuesday the 27th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 9900 Culver Blvd., #1B, Culver City, CA 90232
Website: https://shop.villagewell.com/events/32913
The Virtual Cobalt Series & Open Mic + Featured Reader Scott Ferry – Online Zoom Event
The Virtual Cobalt Poets Series, presented by Rick Lupert via Zoom, will feature an Open Reading and guest Scott Ferry.
Scott Ferry is a poet and writer who helps veterans heal as a RN in the Seattle area. He will keep writing poetry to keep his skin on and the little voices sated. You can find more at ferrypoetry.com.
NOTE: Details and Zoom link at event link.
Where: Cobalt Poets – Online Zoom Event
Date: Tuesday the 27th
Time: 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: http://poetrysuperhighway.com/cobalt/calendar.html
The Sunless Sea Open Mic: Poetry and Spoken Word Show – In-Person Event
The Sunless Sea Open Mic: Poetry and Spoken Word Show is offered every week at the Unurban Coffee House. Hosted by DeForest Wright, all are invited to attend.
NOTE: Details at event link. Check to Verify.
Where: Unurban Co6ee House
Date: Tuesday the 27th
Time: 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Address: 3301 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica, CA 90405
Website: https://www.facebook.com/groups or https://www.facebook.com/events/213407634459999/?active_tab=discussion
Da Poetry Lounge SLAM Open Mic at Greenway Court – In-Person Event
The nation’s largest weekly Open Mic event is 25 years strong. They hold open mic nights. At an open mic, all are welcome to share their poetry or sit in their audience.
Every Tuesday (except for 3rd Tuesdays and special events) they hold open mic nights.
NOTE: See sign-ups, details, and guidelines at website link.
$10 donation. Do NOT line up prior to 7:30 p.m. Free parking adjacent to theatre.
Masks are encouraged. All ages are welcome.
Where: Greenway Court Theatre
Date: Tuesday the 27th
Time: 9 pm – 11 pm
Address: 544 N. Fairfax Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90036
Website: https://www.instagram.com/p/ChLUBSRPCFb/ or https://www.dapoetrylounge.com/events/open-mic-night
Mystery Book Club: The Skeleton Road at Once Upon a Time – In-Person Event
Mystery Book Club participants will discuss The Skeleton Road: A Karen Pirie Novel, by author Val McDermid.
This novel is about a cold case that links back to the Balkan Wars of the 1990s. In the center of historic Edinburgh, builders are preparing to demolish a disused Victorian Gothic building. They are understandably surprised to find skeletal remains hidden in a high pinnacle that hasn’t been touched by maintenance for years. But who do the bones belong to, and how did they get there? Could the eccentric British pastime of free climbing the outside of buildings play a role? Enter cold case detective Karen Pirie, who gets to work trying to establish the corpse’s identity.
NOTE: See site for tickets and details.
Where: Once Upon a Time (outside the shop in the circle in font of Star Café)
Date: Wednesday the 28th
Time: 9 am
Address: 2207 Honolulu Ave., Montrose, CA 91020
Website: https://www.shoponceuponatime.com/event/mystery-book-group-skeleton-road-val-mcdermid
Author Susan Verde & Who I Am at pages: a bookstore OFF-SITE at Mira Costa High School Auditorium – In-Person Event
This event is presented by MBEF & pages: a bookstore and this book encourage kids to practice self-love every day with Who I Am, an uplifting picture book collection of positive affirmations and companion to Susan Verde and Peter H. Reynolds’s New York Times bestselling I Am series.
NOTE: See site for tickets and details.
Where: pages: a bookstore Off-site at Mira Coast Hish School
Date: Wednesday the 28th
Time: 10 am
Address: 1401 Artesia Blvd., Manhattan Beach CA 90266
Website: https://www.shoponceuponatime.com/event/mystery-book-group-skeleton-road-val-mcdermid
Middle Grade Book Club: The Misfits at pages: a bookstore – In-Person MG Event
This event is held generally on the 3rd Wednesday of the month, and participants will discuss The Misfits #1: A Royal Conundrum, by author Lisa Yee and illustrator Dan Santat.
When a notorious thief is out for priceless treasure (gems! cats! general decorum!)—who’re you gonna call? An elite team of crime-fighting underdogs, that’s who! The Misfits are on the case in this hilarious illustrated series.
Lisa Yee is a Newbery Honoree and a National Book Award finalist for Maizy Chen’s Last Chance. Some of her other twenty-one novels are the groundbreaking Millicent Min, Girl Genius; Stanford Wong Flunks Big-Time; and the DC Super Hero Girls series. A frequent contributor to NPR’s Books We Love, she divides her time between Western Massachusetts and Los Angeles.
Dan Santat is a #1 New York Times bestselling author and illustrator of over a hundred books. His picture book The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend received the Caldecott Medal. He also illustrated The Blur, Lift, and Drawn Together, both written by Minh Lê, which received critical acclaim. Dan is also the creator of the Disney animated hit The Replacements.
NOTE: See site for tickets and details.
Where: pages: a bookstore
Date: Wednesday the 28th
Time: 4 pm
Address: 1401 Artesia Blvd., Manhattan Beach, CA 90266
Website: https://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/susan-verde-speaks-mira-costa-high-school-auditorium
Good Trouble Reading Group: Voyage of the Sable Genius via Edendale Branch Library, LAPL – Online Event
Good Trouble is a monthly reading group, and participants will discuss a selection of poems from Voyage of the Sable Venus by Robin Coste Lewis, former Poet Laureate of the City of Los Angeles. In her stunning debut collection, which won the National Book Award in 2015, Lewis meditates on the cultural depiction of the black female figure, juxtaposing autobiography with art-historical constructs of racial identity to create a new idea of self. In poems that consider the boundaries of beauty and terror, Coste Lewis intimately involves us with all that has formed her. The aesthetic and psychological complexity of this work is communicated in superb clarity.
Email eden@lapl.org for the list of poems we’ll be reading and discussing as well as the Zoom link to attend.
The Good Trouble Reading Group shares books that engage themes of social justice with love and family at their core. Dr. Andrea Liss, an Echo Park resident, is Professor Emerita of Visual Culture and Cultural Theory at California State University San Marcos. Her teaching and research focus on feminist visual culture and writing, visual art, and photography related to historical events and representations of social justice particularly through the work of African American women.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Edendale Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Wednesday the 28th
Time: 4 pm – 5 pm
Address: Online Event (see site)
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/good-trouble-reading-group-voyage-sable-venus
Sci-Fi Book Club with John Tommasinoat Van Nuys Branch Library, LAPL – In-Person Event
Join our in-person Science Fiction Book Club, where Frank Herbert’s Dune: Messiah will be discussed. Moderated by John Tommasino.
Synopsis: “Dune Messiah continues the story of Paul Atreides, better known—and feared—as the man christened Muad’Dib. As Emperor of the known universe, he possesses more power than a single man was ever meant to wield. Worshiped as a religious icon by the fanatical Fremen, Paul faces the enmity of the political houses he displaced when he assumed the throne—and a conspiracy conducted within his own sphere of influence. And even as House Atreides begins to crumble around him from the machinations of his enemies, the true threat to Paul comes to his lover, Chani, and the unborn heir to his family’s dynasty…”
Open to all. Pick up a copy at the check-out desk. No RSVP Required.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Van Nuys Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Wednesday the 28th
Time: 5 pm
Address: 6250 Sylmar Ave., Van Nuys, CA 91401
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/sci-fi-book-club-john-tommasino
Mystery Book Discussion: Small Mercies at Palms-Ranch Park Branch Library, LAPL – In-Person Event
Mystery Book Discussion participants will discuss Small Mercies by author Dennis Lehane.
RSVP:
This program meets via Zoom. Please preregister here.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Palms-Rancho Park Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Wednesday the 28th
Time: 6 pm
Address: 2920 Overland Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90064
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/mystery-book-discussion
Quest Book Club: Wild Tongues at The Book Jewel, Westchester – In-Person Event
Book Club participants will discuss Wild Tongues Can’t Be Tamed, by author Saraceia Fennell.
Wild Tongues Can’t Be Tamed is an anthology of stories of the myths and stereotypes of the Latin diaspora. From ghost stories and super-heroes to kitchen memories and world travels, and from identity and anti-Blackness, to finding love and speaking your truth.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: The Book Jewel
Date: Wednesday the 28th
Time: 6 pm
Address: 6259 W. 87th St., Westchester, Los Angeles, CA 90045
Website: https://www.thebookjewel.com/events
Mystery & Thriller Book Club: The Last Thing He Told Me at Palms-Ranch Park Branch Library, LAPL – In-Person Event
Mystery & Thriller Book Club participants will discuss The Last Thing He Told Me by author Laura Dave.
RSVP:
Please email studio@lapl.org for details.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Studio City Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Wednesday the 28th
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: 12511 Moorpark St., Studio City, CA 91604
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/mystery-thriller-book-club-1
Pat Thomas & Jessica Hundley, with Ginny Winn, & Grievous Angels, Trout Masks, and American Beauties: 1970s Rock & Roll Photography of Ginny Winn at Diesel, A Bookstore – In-Person Event
Edited and annotated by historians Pat Thomas and Jessica Hundley with Ginny Winn’s cooperation, Grievous Angels, Trout Masks, and American Beauties presents Ginny’s remarkable story for the first time—and is rich with candid, never-before-seen photos. Beautifully designed by Nic Taylor at Thunderwing, this book is highlighted by an essay and interviews with Ginny’s close friend Maria Muldaur.
In the early 1970s, Ginny Winn became the first in-house staff photographer for Warner/Reprise Records in Burbank, CA, when its roster included John Cale, Grateful Dead, Van Morrison, Maria Muldaur, Jimmy Webb, The Incredible String Band, Kate & Anna McGarrigle, Emmylou Harris, Gram Parsons, Captain Beefheart, Alice Cooper, Frank Zappa, Bonnie Raitt, Tim Buckley, Arlo Guthrie, Joe Boyd, and Jackie DeShannon. Led by Mo Ostin and Joe Smith, the label’s catalog was a blend of counterculture icons and Americana (before it had a name).
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Diesel, A Bookstore
Date: Wednesday the 28th
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: 225 26th St., Suite 33, Santa Monica, CA 90402
Website: https://www.dieselbookstore.com/event/Pat-Thomas-Jessica-Hundley-Ginny-Winn-signing
Material Girl: A Marxist Feminist Reading Group & Transgender Marxism at North Figueroa Bookshop – In-Person Event
Please join North Fig for a discussion of Transgender Marxism, edited by Jules Joanne Gleeson and Elle O’Rourke.
The discussion will focus on Intro, ch, 4 & 5.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: North Figueroa Bookshop
Date: Wednesday the 28th
Time: 7 pm – 9 pm
Address: 6040 N Figueroa St., CA 90042
Website: https://northfigbookshop.com/event/#calendar-8a0f87f6-17d6-4f10-9815-04df4c8251ba-event-lrr61eqx
RECESS Open Mic Is Backat SIPA HQ, Palms Up Academy – In-Person Event
RECESS Open Mic Is Backat SIPA HQ on Wednesdays.
This dynamic open mic is the most accessible public program in our curriculum and manifests our mission statement in a physical (and digital) space.
Join us at the intersection of Historic Filipinotown & The World: Search to Involve Pilipino Americans.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, cost, guidelines, and details.
Where: SIPA
Date: Wednesday the 28th
Time: 7 pm – 9;30 pm (Doors at 6:30)
Address: 3200 W. Temple St., Ste. 100, Los Angeles, CA 90026
Website: https://www.palmsupacademy.com or https://docs.google.com/forms
Now You See Me: An Introduction to 100 Years of Black Design by Charlene Preppeh, with Silas Munro Jason E. C. Wright & Schessa Garbutt,at Reparations Club – In-Person Event
Charlene Prempeh, in conversation with Silas Munro (Polymode),Jason E.C. Wright (Burntsienna Research Society), and Schessa Garbutt (Firebrand Creative House) will discuss her debut design book Now You See Me: An Introduction to 100 Years of Black Design.
Charlene Prempeh is the founder of A Vibe Called Tech, a Black-owned creative agency that is dedicated to approaching creativity through an intersectional lens. Charlene is also a Financial Times HTSI columnist and contributing editor who writes about design, travel, and culture.
After studying PPE at Oxford University, she began a career in marketing and worked at some of the UK’s most prominent media platforms and art institutions including the BBC, The Guardian, and Frieze. More recently, she launched A Vibe Called Tech to encourage a culturally diverse lens in design, technology, arts, and culture by spearheading partnerships, events, research, and workshops across London and through her journalism and consultancy work.
Since its establishment in 2018, A Vibe Called Tech has worked with brands including Gucci, Stine Goya, Faber, Frieze and institutions like Whitechapel Gallery, White Cube, RA and V&A East to deliver ambitious creative output that nourishes communities. In 2022, the agency launched Turned A, a cultural merchandising project which seeks to amplify key messages of the creative agency’s projects and its Art Consultancy arm, established to help clients connect seamlessly with artists.
Charlene currently consults for the Royal Academy of Arts on partnerships and development, is on the editorial board of the Tate Magazine, a Dezeen Awards 2022 judge and is Chair of the Frieze 91 committee.
NOTE: See site for tickets and details.
Where: Reparations Club
Date: Wednesday the 28th
Time: 7 pm – 8:30 pm (Doors at 6:30 pm)
Address: 3054 S Victoria Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90016
Website: https://rep.club/products/100-years-event
At Skylight: Ari Gold, with Ethan Gold, & Father Versus Sons at Skylight Books – In-Person Event
Ari Gold, in conversation with Ethan Gold, will present and discuss hiscollection of poems Fathers Versus Sons.
In Father Verses Sons, a lushly illustrated “correspondence in poems,” ranges across the life, family, and death of a remarkable father. The father and his sons write tenderly of their hunger for connection, about the woman that all three men have lost (a mother, a wife), and about the passion that all three seek. Ultimately, these poems tell a singular story of men bumbling their way towards love.
When the global pandemic forced his ninety-six-year-old father into isolation, filmmaker Ari Gold became concerned that loneliness would kill his father’s spirits. As a prolific novelist who began writing in his twenties, Herbert Gold’s incredible oeuvre included twenty-four novels, five collections of stories and essays, and eight nonfiction books. So, Ari mailed his father a poem, asking for one in return. Later, Ari’s twin brother, Ethan, also got into the game. This launched a lifesaving literary correspondence, and a testament to the bonds of family.
Ari Gold is a filmmaker and winner of the Student Oscar. His films have been selected at Sundance four times, and his upcoming movies “Helicopter” and “Brother Verses Brother” are companions to this book.
Ethan Gold is a songwriter, performer, and composer residing in Los Angeles and Berlin. He is releasing a trilogy of albums about the modern world, called “Earth City.”
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Skylight
Date: Wednesday the 28th
Time: 7 pm – 8:30 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Website: https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/skylight-ari-gold-presents-father-verses-sons-w-ethan-gold
Book Release Event: Lucy Sante & I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition at Stories Books & Coffee – In-Person Event
Acclaimed writer, artist, and culture critic Lucy Sante presents her latest book, a memoir of a life spent pursuing a dream of artistic truth while evading the truth of her own gender identity.
Sante’s memoir braids together two threads of personal narrative: the arc of her life, and her recent step-by-step transition to a place of inner and outer alignment. Sante brings a loving irony to her account of her unsteady first steps; there was much she found she still needed to learn about being a woman after some sixty years cloaked in a man’s identity, in a man’s world. A marvel of grace and empathy, I Heard Her Call My Name parses with great sensitivity many issues that touch our lives deeply, of gender identity and far beyond.
Lucy Sante is the author of Low Life, Evidence, The Factory of Facts, Kill All Your Darlings, Folk Photography, The Other Paris, Maybe the People Would Be the Times, and Nineteen Reservoirs. Her awards include a Whiting Writers Award, an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Grammy Award (for album notes), an Infinity Award from the International Center of Photography, and Guggenheim and Cullman Center fellowships. She recently retired after twenty-four years teaching at Bard College.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Stories Books & Coffee
Date: Wednesday the 28th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 1716 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90026
Website: https://storiesla.com/events
Kate Anthony & The D Word at Vroman’s – In-Person Event
Kate Anthony will discuss The D Word: Making the Ultimate Decision About Your Marriage.
From the host of the critically acclaimed The Divorce Survival Guide Podcast comes a book that provides the clarity, peace, and answers women need to make empowered decisions about their marriages, break unhealthy patterns, and build the life they truly want
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Vroman’s
Date: Wednesday the 28th
Time: 7 pm – 8:30 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91001
Website: https://www.vromansbookstore.com/Kate-Anthony-discusses-The-D-Word
Vroman’s Fiction Reading Group: The Vanishing Half at Vroman’s The Atrium – In-Person Event
Alex Michaelides will discuss his novel The Vanishing Half by author Britt Bennett.
The Vanishing Half
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Vroman’s at The Atrium
Date: Wednesday the 28th
Time: 7 pm – 8:30 pm
Address: 709 E. Colorado Blvd., Suit3e 120, Pasadena, CA 91001
Website: https://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/vromans-fiction-reading-group-5
Anansi Virtual Writers Workshop at The World Stage – In-Person Event
The Anansi Writers Workshop was founded in 1990 by Kamau Daáood, Akilah Oliver, Nafis Nabawi and Anthony Lyons. In 1993, Michael Datcher initiated the development of a three-part format for the workshop. Our tradition of a community workshop began in the late 1960s at the Watts Writers’ Workshop, where World Stage co-founder Kamau Daáood started his writing career. For general information and booking, contact V. Kali, the Anansi Writers Workshop Coordinator, at vkaliflowers@gmail.com.
- 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm — Formal workshop;
- 8:30 pm – 9:00 pm — Lady J;
- 9:05 pm – 10:00 pm — Open mic.
Suggested: $5.00 Donation via PayPal: The World Stage Gallery.
NOTE: See site for further details, and any change in the schedule. Contact kaliflowers@gmail.com or call (323) 293-2451
Where: The World Stage
Date: Wednesday the 28th
Time: 7:30 pm – 10 pm
Address: 4321 Degnan Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90008
Website: https://www.instagram.com/anansiwritersworkshop/
Wednesday Night Poetry Workshop at Beyond Baroque – Online Zoom Event
Beyond Baroque’s longest-running free poetry workshop is offered on Zoom and welcomes new and seasoned poets to share their work and provide feedback. Please be prepared to share one poem. This workshop will be hosted via the Zoom video-conferencing platform. Please sign up for each workshop session at least 24 hours in advance of the meeting, and you will be contacted with instructions on how to join the meeting.
The workshop facilitator this quarter is L.A. Johnson, the author of the chapbook Little Climates (Bull City Press, 2017). She holds an MFA from Columbia University and a PhD from the University of Southern California, where she is currently a Mellon Humanities and University of the Future postdoctoral fellow. The winner of the 2022 Mississippi Review Poetry Prize, the 2022 Greensboro Review Poetry Prize, the 2021 Arts & Letters Rumi Poetry Prize, her poems appear in The Atlantic, Poetry Magazine, and The Slowdown. She’s received support for her writing from Vermont Studio Center, Community of Writers, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and elsewhere. Find more about her at http://www.la-johnson.com
Please spend some time before the workshop learning how to share documents via Zoom. It will keep the session moving if you’re able to make your poem viewable quickly and easily. There’s an instructive video that might help.
The workshop can sometimes reach high levels of attendance, which means not everyone will get a chance to read every session.
NOTE: See site for further details, tickets, and information.
Where: Beyond Baroque
Date: Wednesday the 28th
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: Online event (see site)
Website: https://www.beyondbaroque.org/free_workshops or https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wednesday-night-poetry-workshop-tickets-848288041367
Poetry Reading & Open Mic by Two Idiots Peddling Poetry with Ben Trigg & Guest Feature TBA at The Ugly Mug – In-Person Event
Host Ben Trigg and Two Idiots Peddling Poetry at the Ugly Mug on Wednesday Nights offers a Reading & Open Mic, with featured guest TBA.
$4 cover fee, cash only.
NOTE: See site for further details. CHECK TO VERIFY.
Where: The Ugly Mug, Orange
Date: Wednesday the 28th
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: 261 N. Glassell St., Orange, CA 92866
Website: https://www.facebook.com/people/Two-Idiots-Peddling-Poetry/
We Love L.A. Book Club: One Shot Harry at Eagle Rock Branch Library, LAPL – In-Person Event
We Love L.A. Book Club examines some of the many talented Los Angeles-based authors who incorporate the diversity and unique history of our city into their work.
The selection for February is One-Shot Harry by Gary Phillips, a historical crime novel set in 1963 Los Angeles. Harry Ingram is a Korean War veteran and news photographer who puts his life on the line seeking justice for a friend. The library will have copies to check out or check our e-media page for electronic access on Libby and hoopla.
Please bring book suggestions for future meetings.
Note: See site for details.
Where: Eagle Rock Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Thursday the 29th
Time: 3 pm
Address: 5027 Caspar Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90041
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/we-love-la-book-club-7
Brentwood Writing Workshop: Wish Soup at Brentwood Branch Library, LAPL – In-Person Event
Bring any project that you’re working on to our weekly writing group. Poetry, novels, short stories, memoirs, and essays are all welcome. You will have free time to write and even lots of support from our great group of local writers.
Note: See site for details.
Where: Brentwood. Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Thursday the 29th
Time: 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Address: Online Event (see site)
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/brentwood-writing-workshop
Author Event: Kelly Yang & Finally Heard at Children’s Book World Off-site at The Center for Early Education – In-Person MG Event
New York Times bestselling middle grade author Kelly Yang will present and discuss her new book Finally Heard, the sequel to her bestselling book , Finally Seen.
Note: See site for tickets, options, and details.
Where: The Center for Early Education
Date: Thursday the 29th
Time: 6 pm – 8 pm
Address: 563 N. Alfred St., West Hollywood, CA 90048
LGBTQ Book Club: Dragged to the Wedding at Cellar Door Bookstore – In-Person Event
LGBTQ Book Club participants will discuss Dragged to the Wedding, by author Andrew Grey.
James Petika is living the single gay life he always wanted. A police officer in Chicago, he has a good job, good friends—and he’s two thousand miles away from his family’s expectations. He also has a problem: he needs a date for his sister’s wedding in Missoula, Montana, but his family has no idea that he’s gay, and he’d like to keep it that way.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Cellar Door Bookstore
Date: Thursday the 29th
Time: 6 pm
Address: 473 E. Alessandro Blvd., Suite B, Riverside, CA 92508
Website: https://www.cellardoorbookstore.com/event/lgbtq-book-club-dragged-wedding
Big Read Book Club: Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? at Westwood Branch Library, LAPL – In-Person Event
Cookies & Comics Book Club participants will discuss Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?, a memoir by author Roz Chast.
This Big Read edition of the book club will have copies of the book available at the Westwood Library Circulation Desk.
We’ll delve into the relationships that shape our lives—and how we can learn from Roz Chast’s own experience with the aging of her parents.
Note: See site for details.
Where: Westwood Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Thursday the 29th
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: 1246 Glendon Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90024
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/big-read-cookies-comics-book-club
Local Author Nedda Lewers & Daughters of the Lamp at pages: a bookstore – In-Person MG Event
Nedda Lewers will present and discuss her debut middle grade novel, Daughters of the Lamp.
In Daughters of the Lamp, the author has written a stunning middle grade fantasy debut about a girl who becomes the guardian of Ali Baba’s legendary treasure.
Nedda Lewers is an author and former teacher. She writes books that take children on fun adventures and feature characters who are trying to make sense of the big, complicated world and their place in it. Even though it wasn’t easy growing up with one foot in America and the other in Egypt, Nedda cherishes how that experience has given her a rich and expansive perspective from which she draws to write her stories.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: pages: a bookstore
Date: Thursday the 29th
Time: 6:30 pm
Address: 904 Manhattan Ave., Manhattan Beach, CA 90266
Website: https://www.pagesabookstore.com/event/local-author-nedda-lewers-celebrates-launch-her-debut-novel
Wendy Kurtzman & Acting Is Your Business at Book Soup – In-Person Event
Wendy Kurtzman will discuss her book, Acting Is Your Business.
If acting is your business, you must run it as a business. Positioning you as CEO of your own company, this book uses a boardroom table as a visual model. The author presents seven key positions, each representing an area of action and expertise to build a successful career. With worksheets and tools, supplemented throughout with interviews with industry professionals from North America, the UK and Europe, and Australia, and supported by a companion website, this plan will empower and equip you to achieve your career goals.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Thursday the 29th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Website: https://www.booksoup.com/event/wendy-kurtzman
Author Event: Crista Polich & Admitting Abuse at Flintridge Bookstore – In-Person Event
Crista Polich will present and discuss her memoir, Admitting Abuse.
The author invites readers to follow her profound journey from an abusive marriage to becoming a widow. Her memoir serves as a beacon of hope for women who have endured similar hardships, assuring them that they are not alone in their struggles. The book is thoughtfully divided into what Crista terms “The Four D’s”: The Four Most Unexpected and Life-Altering Events a person can face – Death, Divorce, Diagnosis, and Disaster. In sharing her experiences, she hopes readers will find solace, inspiration, and practical strategies for facing their own hardships head-on.
After living for years in an abusive marriage, Crista summoned up the strength to end that unhealthy relationship. She had just launched their youngest child off to college when she and her husband decided to get divorced. She knew it would be a challenging season, but little did she know what lay ahead. Only three and a half weeks later, Crista suddenly found herself a widow. Her husband had committed suicide. Because she had been a stay-at-home mom for most of her marriage, she found herself completely unprepared and overwhelmed for what life had now presented her. However, Crista did not sit idle. She began reclaiming her life one step at a time. She started tackling the tough stuff and now she helps others do the same.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Flintridge Bookstore
Date: Thursday the 29th
Time: 7 pm
Address: 858 Foothill Blvd., La Cañada Flintridge, CA, 91011
Aisha Sabatini Sloan, with Vickie Vertiz, & Dreaming of Ramadi in Detroit at North Figueroa Bookshop – In-Person Event
Aisha Sabatini Soan, in conversation with Vickie Vertiz, will discuss her book Dreaming of Ramadi in Detroit.
This collection of innovative, penetrating, and lively essays features swimming pools and poets, road trips and museums, family dinners and celebrity sightings. In a voice that is at once piercing, mournful, and slyly comic, Aisha Sabatini Sloan inhabits several roles: she is an art enthusiast in Los Angeles during a city-wide manhunt; a daughter on a road trip with her father; a professor playing with puppets in the wilds of Vermont; an interloper on a police ride-along in Detroit; a collector of the dreams of scientists at a biostation. As she watches cell phone video recordings of murder and is haunted in her sleep by the news, she reflects on her formative experiences with aesthetic and spiritual discovery, troubling those places where Blackness has been conflated with death.
Sloan’s lively style is perfectly suited to her subjects.
Aisha Sabatini Sloan is the author of The Fluency of Light, Borealis, and Captioning the Archives. Her work has appeared in Guernica, the Paris Review, and the New York Times, among other places, and she teaches at the University of Michigan.
The oldest child of Mexican immigrants, Vickie Vértiz was born and raised in southeast Los Angeles. Vértiz‘s writing is featured in the New York Times magazine, the Los Angeles Review of Books, McSweeney’s, the Academy of American Poets, and KCET, among many publications. She’s been a fellow at the Mellon Foundation, Bread Loaf Environmental Writers Conference, and CantoMundo. Her new book Auto/Body won the 2022 Sandeen Poetry Prize from the University of Notre Dame and is in bookstores now. She teaches writing at UC-Santa Barbara. Follow her work at vickievertiz.com.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: North Figueroa Bookshop
Date: Thursday the 29th
Time: 7 pm – 9 pm
Address: 6040 N Figueroa St., CA 90042
Website: https://northfigbookshop.com/event/#calendar-8a0f87f6-17d6-4f10-9815-04df4c8251ba-event-lstp826p
Tedd Siegal, with Jonathan Alexander, & Signs of the Great Refusal at Page Against the Machine – In-Person Event
Tedd Siegal, in conversation with Jonathan Alexander, will discuss his debut book Signs of the Great Refusal: The Coming Struggle for a Postwork Society.
The much-discussed “problem with work today” tends to reflect the frustrations of the professional–managerial class (as well as other workers in globalized services industries in the digital age) and is often at odds with the concerns of the organized labor movement and the traditional Left. Much of this discussion presents an unacceptable either/or: workers are encouraged either to “lean in,” and become better “human capital,” or else to develop forms of palliative care for these same neoliberal selves by means of personal projects of self-optimization, recovery, and wellness.
In tis book, Tedd Siegel challenges the assumptions supporting these highly constrained possibilities, asking instead what it might take to deprivatize and repoliticize the contemporary conditions of work itself in order to make a broad-based politics of refusal potentially viable.
Tedd Siegal lives with his husband Matt on the central coast of California and spends more time with dogs and goats than with people. He is the co-founder and co-editor of indarktimes.com, a blog dedicated to overcoming liberal post-politics, and to developing and disseminating new, anti-capitalist critiques tailored to the post-Fordist, neoliberal digital age. He previously worked in Silicon Valley for twenty years in marketing and program management roles and served as a senior manager of Silicon Valley partnerships for the University of California where he was involved with major R&D contracts and initiatives between academia, government agencies, and private companies. Tedd holds an MA in philosophy from the New School for Social Research, where he also pursued PhD studies in moral and political philosophy. He also spent time as a street activist in San Francisco, participating in ACT-UP and Radical Faerie actions and community events in the 1980s.
Jonathan Alexander is Chancellor’s Professor of English, Informatics, Education, and Gender & Sexuality Studies at the University of California, Irvine, and a cultural journalist and memoirist. He is the author of numerous books, including the Punctum Books-published Creep: A Life, A Theory, An Apology (2017) and Bullied: The Story of an Abuse (2021). His latest book is Writing and Desire: Queer Ways of Composing (University of Pittsburgh Press 2023).
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Page Against the Machine
Date: Thursday the 29th
Time: 7 pm – 9 pm
Address: 2712 E. 4th St., Long Beach, CA 90814
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/352732307656602
Historically Black Phrases Live! in Los Angelesvia Reparations Club Off-site at The Renberg Theater at Los Angeles LGBT Center – In-Person Event
This event is Black culture game show based on the must-have book, hosted by co-authors jarrett hill and Tre’vell Anderson, Historically Black Phrases: From I Ain’t One of Your Lil’ Friends to Who All Gone Be There?
Each show features three notable contestants competing in 3 rounds of gameplay rooted in trivia about Black culture. The highest-scoring contestant advances to a final round in which they’re tested on all things Boo Boo The Fool—and other Historically Black Phrases! Lucky audience members get a chance to play for prizes, too!
NOTE: See site for tickets and details.
Where: Rep Club at The Renberg Theater at Los Angeles LGBT Center
Date: Wednesday the 29th
Time: 7 pm – 8:30 pm
Address: 1125 N McCadden Pl., Los Angeles, CA 90028
Website: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/historically-black-phrases-live-in-los-angeles-tickets-777361357747
At Skylight: Marisa Crawford, with Morgan Parker, Christopher Soto, Neelanjana Banerjee & Eleanor Whitney & The Weird Sister Collection at Skylight Books – In-Person Event
Marisa Crawford, in conversation with Morgan Parker, Christopher Soto, Neelanjana Banerjee & Eleanor Whitney, will discuss her book The Weird Sister Collection: Writing at the Intersection of Feminism, Litereature, and Pop Culture.
Join us for the best of the underground blog Weird Sister! These unapologetic and insightful essays link contemporary feminism to literature and pop culture.
Launched in 2014, Weird Sister proudly staked out a corner of the internet where feminist writers could engage with the literary and popular culture that excited or enraged them. The blog made space amid book websites dominated by white male editors and contributors, and was also committed to covering literary topics in-depth when larger feminist outlets rarely could. Throughout its decade-long run, Weird Sister served as an early platform for some of contemporary literature’s most striking voices, naming itself a website that “speaks its mind and snaps its gum and doesn’t apologize.”
NOTE: See site for bios and details.
Where: Skylight
Date: Thursday the 29th
Time: 7 pm – 8:30 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Jeffrey Siger & At Any Cost (Chief Inspector Andreas Kaldis Mystery #`13) at Vroman’s – In-Person Event
Jeffrey Siger will present and discuss his novel, At Any Cost.
In this latest crime fiction novel, Chief Inspector Kaldis is initially dismayed to be asked to investigate a series of suspicious forest fires that took place last summer. In Greece, forest fires are an inevitability, and he fears he and his team are being set up to take the political blame for this year’s blazes.
He quickly becomes suspicious, though, that the forests were torched for profit – and for a project on a far grander scale than the usual low-level business corruption. There are whispers on the wind that shadowy foreign powers intend to establish a surreptitious mega-internet presence on the island of Syros, with the intent to weaponize the digital world to their own dark ends.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Vroman’s
Date: Thursday the 29th
Time: 7 pm – 8:30 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91001
Website: https://www.vromansbookstore.com/event/jeffrey-siger-discusses-any-cost
Reading Event: Diosa X & Jonathan Humanoid at Common Corners Brewing, Walnut – In-Person Event
Diosa Xochiquetzalcoatl and Jonathan Humanoid will read and discuss their work.
Adriana Citlali Brenes-Rios is the writer behind the pen name Diosa Xochiquetzalcóatl. Diosa X is the author of Hechizera: Sus Sultry Spells, and others.
Jonathan Humanoid is a poet/fiction writer from Fullerton, CA. He has been writing since 2012. He is the author of Decomposition of the Living.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Common Corners Brewing
Date: Thursday the 29th
Time: 8 pm
Address: 20265 Valley Blvd., Suite M, Walnut, CA 91789
Website: N/A
Spectacular Storytime at Once Upon a Time Bookstore – In-Person Kids Event
Spectacular Storytime is a weekly time to have fun with books with enthusiastic troubadour, Maddi!
Open to all ages. Free to attend.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Once Upon a Time Bookstore
Date: Friday the 1st
Time: 9:30 am
Address: 2207 Honolulu Ave., Montrose, CA 91020
Website: https://www.shoponceuponatime.com/event
First Fridays Book Club: Trust at Memorial Branch Library, LAPL – In-Person Event
First Friday Book Club participants will discuss the Pulitzer Prize winning novel Trust by author Hernan Diaz.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Memorial Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Friday the 1st
Time: 1 pm
Address: 4625 W. Olympic Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90019
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/first-fridays-book-club
First Fridays Kids Book Club at Los Feliz Branch Library, LAPL – In-Person Kids Event
First Friday Kids Book Club is open to all elementary school readers. Bring one book you have recently read to share your thoughts, likes, and dislikes. We’ll talk, snack, and listen to each other!
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Los Feliz Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Friday the 1st
Time: 3:30 pm
Address: 1874 Hillhurst Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/first-fridays-kids-book-club
Children’s Author Tamika Mitchell & My Super Mom at Altadena Main Library, LAPL – In-Person Kids Event
Join children’s author Tameka Mitchell for a storytime of her book My Super Mom and Her Sidekick Crew.
Children will be engaged in a social- and emotional- focused conversation sharing how every family is unique, redefining what support means, and how everyone in a family has their own superpower.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Altadena Main Library
Date: Friday the 1st
Time: 4:30 pm
Address: 600 E. Mariposa St., Altadena, CA 91001
Website: https://www.altadenalibrary.org/programs/
Patt Morrison, with Larry Mantle, at Occidental College – In-Person Event
It’s time to celebrate Patt Morrison, longtime LA Times journalist, Occidental alumna, Emmy winner, Golden Mike winner, and now Society of Professionals Journalists Greater Los Angeles chapter Distinguished Journalist.
Larry Mantle, host of AirTalk on LAist (formerly KPCC) since 1985, will lead the conversation about Patt’s iconic career.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Occidental College, Mosher 1 Lecture Hall
Date: Friday the 1st
Time: 6 pm
Address: Bird Rd. Los Angeles, CA 90042
Website: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-conversation-with-patt-morrison-and-larry-mantle-tickets-829421160017
Ticketed Event: Joan Collins & Behind the Shoulder Pads: Tales I Tell My Friends at Book Soup – In-Person Event
Joan Collins will sign her book,Behind the Shoulder Pads: Tales I Tell My Friends.
Dame Joan Collins has always believed that one should retain some mystery in life and hide a knowing smile behind one’s shoulder pads. In her new book, she returns in dazzling form to share her most memorable moments from her eclectic and vibrant life—In and out of the limelight. Behind the Shoulder Pads will take you on a spectacular journey from her early years as a young star in Hollywood to stamping her stilettos in Dynasty; to the busy Oscars seasons in LA over the years.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Book Soup
Date: Friday the 1st
Time: 7 pm – 8:30 pm
Address: 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90069
Website: https://www.booksoup.com/event/joan-collins
L.A. Poet Society Benefit: Showcase of Writers Performingat The Floricanto Center for the Performing Arts – In-Person Event
Join L.A. Poet Society for a night of art, culture, and community at the LA Poet Society Benefit! Join us at Floricanto Center for the Performing Arts on MARCH 1, for an evening filled with music, dance, poetry, and honoring some of the most brilliant minds in the LA literary scene.
With a stellar lineup of poets and artists including Los Angeles Poet Laureate, Lynne Thompson, Shonda Buchanan, Luis J. Rodriguez, Altadena Poet Laureate Teresa Mei Chuc, Pomona Poet Laureate Ceasar Avelar, and many more, you won’t want to miss out on this incredible showcase of talent!
We will be honoring community building bookseller Jesse Marez of The Libros Lincoln Heights, among others, and will feature poets reading their work, including:
Shonda Bucanan, Besskepp, Bridgette Bianca, Iris De Anda, Sena Hill, Egyptian Princess, Jessica Wilson, Juan Cardanas, and more.
Immerse yourself in the excitement of our silent auction, enjoy Danza Azteca from Ajolote, and take a photo at our step and repeat. Plus, your ticket purchase goes directly towards supporting the LA Poet Society’s 75 events a year, ensuring that poetry continues to thrive in our vibrant community.
Tickets are only $20, and students with ID can snag theirs for just $10 – so gather your friends, grab your tickets, and let’s make this a night to remember!
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: The Floricanto Center for the Performing Arts
Date: Friday the 1st
Time: 7 pm – 8:30 pm
Address: 2900 Calle Pedro Infante, Northeast Los Angeles, CA 90063
Website: https://www.instagram.com/p/C3kxkS5rr9S/?img_index=1
Palestina Sera Libre: Grand Opening/Poets in Solidarity with Palestineat FTP Café to Art Space HP – In-Person Event
Join Midnight Books at HP Art Space in Huntington Beach for a poetry reading in support of Palestine, featuring:
Yesika Salgado, Aman K. Batra, Ghada Morad, Melanny Rivera, Siyatu, Alejandro Roggereo & Jesenia Chabemucho
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Midnight Books at FreeThePeople Café to Art Space HP in Huntington Park
Date: Friday the 1st
Time: 7 pm
Address: 3382 E. Florence Ave., Huntington Park, CA 90268
Website: https://www.instagram.com/midnightbooksla
Michael Tennant & The Power of Empathy at North Figueroa Bookshop – In-Person Event
The Power of Empathy is an informative and inspirational guide to building a better world through compassion, connection, and curiosity.
With this thirty-day approach, you can develop your empathy skills as tools for self-love and empowerment. Empathy expert and entrepreneur Michael Tennant weaves together scholarly research with his personal journey of loss, substance use, anxiety, and depression to explore how empathy can benefit both our inner lives and our larger community.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: North Figueroa Bookshop
Date: Friday the 1st
Time: 7 pm – 9 pm
Address: 6040 N. Figueroa St., Los Angeles, CA 90042
Website: https://northfigbookshop.com/event/#calendar-8a0f87f6-17d6-4f10-9815-04df4c8251ba-event-lspchirv
At Skylight: Walala Nehanda & Bless the Blood: a cancer memoir at Skylight Books – In-Person Event
Walala Nehanda will discuss her book, Bless the Blood: a cancer memoir.
Join us for a searing debut YA poetry and essay collection about a Black cancer patient who faces medical racism after being diagnosed with leukemia in their early twenties, galvanizing account of their survival despite the U.S. medical system, and of the struggle to face death unafraid.
When Walela is diagnosed at twenty-three with advanced stage blood cancer, they’re suddenly thrust into the unsympathetic world of tubes and pills, doctors who don’t use their correct pronouns, and hordes of “well-meaning” but patronizing people offering unsolicited advice as they navigate rocky personal relationships and share their story online.
But this experience also deepens their relationship to their ancestors, providing added support from another realm. Walela’s diagnosis becomes a catalyst for their self-realization. As they fill out forms in the insurance office in downtown Los Angeles or travel to therapy in wealthier neighborhoods, they begin to understand that cancer is where all forms of their oppression intersect: Disabled. Fat. Black. Queer. Nonbinary.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Skylight Books
Date: Friday the 1st
Time: 7 pm – 8:30 pm
Address: 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Website: https://www.skylightbooks.com/event/skylight-walala-nehanda-presents-bless-blood
Gian Sardar, with Meg Howrey, & When the World Goes Quiet at Vroman’s – In-Person Event
Gian Sardar, in conversation with Meg Howrey, will present and discuss his novel,When the World Goes Quiet.
In this novel, in the final days of World War I, an aspiring artist’s courageous journey is just beginning in a powerful novel about love, danger, and survival by the author of Take What You Can Carry.
It’s 1918 in German-occupied Bruges, Belgium. With luck, Evelien will make it to the end of the war and be given what she was promised: a prized painting in exchange for safeguarding her employer’s possessions. Until then, Evelien knows to keep her head down and stay out of trouble. But life never goes to plan, especially in war. As the final days of the war loom closer, Evelien has never been in more danger. And should she survive the war’s bitter end, what choices will she make for a life beyond liberation?
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Vroman’s
Date: Friday the 1st
Time: 7 pm – 8:30 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91001
Website: https://www.vromansbookstore.com/Gian-Sardar-with-Meg-Howry-discusses-When-the-World-Goes-Quiet
Poetry Reading: Mitchell Untch with Tom Laiches, & Memorial with Liminal Space at Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center – In-Person and Online Hybrid Event
Join us for a night of poetry with Mitchell Untch, author of Memorial with Liminal Space (Driftwood Press, 2023) a collection navigating grief, faith, and identity after the death of the poet’s twin brother. He will be joined by Venice-based poet Tom Laichas. A book signing will follow following the readings.
Mitchell Untch is the author of Memorial with Liminal Space (Driftwood Press, 2023). His poems have appeared in more than one hundred and twenty poetry journals, including Beloit Poetry Journal, Poet Lore, North American Review, Nimrod International Journal of Prose and Poetry, The Baltimore Review, Illuminations, The Massachusetts Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, The Paris-American, and Fjords. Untch has been recognized as a 2022 Telluride Institute Fischer Prize finalist, a 2017 Crab Orchard Review Book Contest semifinalist, and C. P. Cavafy International Poetry Prize finalist, a Poetry Society of America Award semifinalist, and a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee. Untch lives in Los Angeles.
Tom Laichas is the author of Sixty-Three Photographs from the End of a War and Empire of Eden. A recipient of the Nancy Hargrove Poetry Prize, his work is widely published. He lives with his wife Donna in Venice, California.
Where: Beyond Baroque
Date: Friday the 1st
Time: 8 pm
Address: 681 Venice Blvd., Venice, CA 90291
Whiskey and Words: Artist Showcase by LionLike MindState at Fuego Cocina Cantina, Pomona – In-Person Event
Come join us for an amazing night of Whiskey and Words as we bring together talented artists from LionLike MindState to showcase their skill, with Judah 1.
Experience the unique talents of the LionLike MindState with another installment of their Artist showcase of Premier Spoken Word Artist, Rising Live Musicians and even Live Comedians! This one-of-a-kind event will leave you inspired and captivated by the power of creativity. Bring your friends and indulge in the harmonious blend of art, whiskey, and good company and Big Words. Don’t miss out on a night that celebrates the intersection of art and expression.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Fuego Cocina Cantina
Date: Friday the 1st
Time: 8 pm – 11:30 pm
Address: 205 East 2nd St., Pomona, CA 91766
Website: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/whiskey-and-words-artist-showcase-by-lionlike-mindstate-tickets-836212081847
Western Edge Writers at Eagle Rock Branch Library, LAPL – In-Person Event
Writers and aspiring writers, join a group that supports writing endeavors of all genres: fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and memoir.
RSVP:
Please emaileaglrk@lapl.orgfor the writing prompt.
NOTE: See site for RSVP and details.
Where: Eagle Rock Branch Library, LAPL,
Date: Saturday the 2nd
Time: 10 am
Address: 5027 Caspar Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90041
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/western-edge-writers-0
C.A.S.A. Zamora Event at Zamora Park. El Monte – In-Person Family Event
C.A.S.A. Zamora Day of Futbo, Poetry, Dialogue (Culture, Archivo, Solidaridad, Acction) offers small-sided games (5v5), skills clinics for children art and poetry, and workshops about soccer history.
To sign up as a team or as an individual, email 3820pennmar@gmail.com. All ages and experience are welcome.
NOTE: See site for RSVP and details.
Where: Zamora Park, El Monte
Date: Saturday the 2nd
Time: 10 am – 5 pm
Address: 3820 Penn Mar Ave., Zamora Park, El Monte, CA 91732
Website: N/A
Storytime: Piper & Enza Playdate Series at Flintridge Bookstore – In-Person Kids Event
Laugh and learn with the Piper and Enza Playdate Series—a children’s book series exclusively focused on health experiences.
Piper Lee, a six-year-old girl, who is not an expert, uses storytelling to help her friends cope with the fears and worries related to health and healing. Slowing a running nose, coping with shots, and mending broken bones and hearts are some of the topics Piper addresses on her playdates. Her comfy crew, Bird and Enza, always give a little help and a lot of imagination. Each story concludes with a visit to a medical professional who provides advice. At the end of each book, Piper interviews an expert in the field for tips and tools for parents.
NOTE: See site for RSVP, guidelines, and details.
Where: Flintridge Bookstore
Date: Saturday the 2nd
Time: 10:30 am
Address: 858 Foothill Blvd., La Cañada Flintridge, CA, 91011
Website: https://www.flintridgebooks.com/instore-events/2024/1/20/storytime-piper-amp-enza-playdate-series
Book Club: A Fever in the Heartland at Los Feliz Branch Library, LAPL – In-Person Event
Book Club participants will discuss the nonfiction book,A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America and the Woman Who Stopped Them,by author Timothy Egan.
NOTE: See site for RSVP and details.
Where: Los Feliz Branch Library, LAPL,
Date: Saturday the 2nd
Time: 11 am
Address: 1874 Hillhurst Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/book-club-19
Saturday Book Discussion: Birnam Wood at Palms-Rancho Park Branch Library, LAPL – In-Person Event
Book Club participants will discuss the novel,Birnam Wood,by author Eleanor Cattan.
The Booker Prize–winning author of The Luminaries brings us Birnam Wood, a gripping thriller of high drama and kaleidoscopic insight into what drives us to survive.
Join us for wide-ranging conversations. Copies of selections are available at reference and as ebooks. This is our second year reading selections from “100 Notable Books!”
NOTE: See site for RSVP and details.
Where: Palms-Rancho Park Branch Library, LAPL,
Date: Saturday the 2nd
Time: 11 am
Address: 2920 Overland Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90064
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/saturday-book-discussion
Poetry Workshop at Central Library, LAPL – In-Person Event
Join this inclusive, in-person poetry workshop where poets of all levels can come together, share their work, and foster a vibrant poetry community. Participants are invited to bring a poem, no longer than one page, to read and receive valuable feedback from fellow poets. Engage in thoughtful discussions and provide your own insights on the work of others. Whether you’re a seasoned poet or just starting out, this workshop offers a supportive environment to refine your craft, connect with like-minded individuals, and celebrate the power of words.
NOTE: See site for RSVP and details.
Where: Central Library, LAPL, Literature & Fiction Study Rooms
Date: Saturday the 2nd
Time: 11 am – 1 pm
Address: 630 W. 5th St., Los Angeles, CA 90071
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/poetry-workshop-1
Children’s Book Reading: My Super Mom & Her Sidekick Crew at Octavia’s Bookshelf – In-Person Kids & Family Event
When a smart little girl with a big imagination suspects her mom is secretly a superhero, she puts all her problem-solving skills to the test. Every day she sees her mother do DYNAMIC things. But soon her case takes a turn when she discovers that even superheroes get tired and sometimes need help. That’s when her mom’s “sidekicks” step in to lend a helping hand.Follow along as this girl learns all about the power of family. By the end, every kid will want to join the super detective team so they too can identify the “sidekicks” in their family and learn how to become one of Mom’s helpful sidekicks.
NOTE: See site for RSVP and details.
Where: Octavia’s Bookshelf
Date: Saturday the 2nd
Time: 11 am
Address: 1365 N. Hill Ave., Pasadena, CA 91104
Website: https://www.octaviasbookshelf.com/events/childrens-reading-my-super-mom-her-sidekick-crew
Boca de Oro Festival 2024: The Hero in the Journey at Downtown Santa Ana Historic District – In-Person Event
This year, Boca de Oro Festival is all about ‘The Hero in the Journey’ – a cool theme based on Joseph Campbell’s stories. It’s about finding magic in normal life and sharing different stories through art.
Join us for amazing literary, visual, musical, and performing arts performances in various locations in Downtown Santa Ana on Saturday, March 2, 2024.
Individual Highlights include:
Author & Poet Jose Lozano: “Everyone has a Story” at The Wayward Artist Theatre at 12 pm.
Keynote speaker is Rachell Cruz at The Frida Cinema at 4 pm.
See site for full schedule and further details.
Partial Schedule of Poetry Readings:
11 am a 12:30 pm: “Entre héroes y heroínas embriagantes”
Featuring: Paula Gutierrez, Maria Herrera, Gustavo Adolfo Guerra Vasquez, Diosa Xochiquetzalcoatl.
12 pm: “The She(roes) Among Us”
Featuring: Cecilia Sanchez, Jesenia Chavez, Iuri M. Lara, Angelina Saenz.
1 pm: “Heroes from the Hood”
Featuring: Davis Alvarado, Oscar Velasquez, Caesar Avelar, David A. Romero, Donato Martinez.
2:30 pm: “Unsung Heros”
Featuring: Sandy Shakes, Carlos Ornelas, Isabella Santana, Elvia Susana Rubalcava.
Location: Santora Building Basement
207 N. Broadway
Santa Ana, CA 92701
NOTE: See site for RSVP tickets at site link and details.
Where: Downtown Santa Ana Historic District
Date: Saturday the 2nd
Time: 11 am – 5 pm
Address: E 4th St, Santa Ana, CA 92701
Website: https://sites.google.com/sausdlearns.net/boca-de-oro/schedule
Local Author: Eric Weintraub & South of Sepharad at Village Well Books & Coffee – In-Person Event
Local author Eric Weintraub will sign his debut novel, South of Sepharad.
South of Sepharad is an historical fiction novel based on the 1492 Expulsion of the Jews from Spain. The novel follows a Jewish physician from Granada who attempts to flee Spain with his family and community to escape the threat of execution posed by the Spanish Inquisition.
Eric Z. Weintraub earned an MFA in Creative Writing from Mount St. Mary’s University in Los Angeles where he wrote his debut novel South of Sepharad. When not writing fiction, Eric profiles true stories of complex medical cases where he works at the Keck School of Medicine of USC.
Where: Village Well Books & Coffee
Date: Saturday the 2nd
Time: 12 pm – 1 pm
Address: 9900 Culver Blvd., #1B, Culver City, CA 90232
Website: https://shop.villagewell.com/events/34069
Celebration of Bob Branaman at Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center – In-Person Event
Join us as we honor and cherish the incredible life of Bob Branaman (December 15, 1933 – January 9, 2024). Bob was a legendary painter, sculptor, filmmaker, and poet who exhibited at the Batman Gallery in the early 1960s; formed part of the “Wichita Vortex” with Bruce Conner, Charley Plymell, Michael McClure, and others; was a member of Bruce Conner’s Rat Bastard Protective Association; and collaborated with William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and many others. He served as Beyond Baroque’s inaugural Artist-in-Residence from 2010-2020, during which time he curated approximately 100 shows in The Mike Kelley Gallery. At our 55th anniversary gala, Beyond Baroque awarded Bob the 2023 Alexandra Garrett Award for Service to Beyond Baroque.
NOTE: See site for further details, and information.
Where: Beyond Baroque
Date: Saturday the 2nd
Time: 2 pm
Address: 681 Venice Blvd., Venice, CA 90291
Website: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-celebration-of-bob-branaman-tickets-840923794707?aff=oddtdtcreator
Story Time & Craft: Rachell Abalos & Our Nipa Hut at Once Upon a Time – In-Person Kids Event
Filipina author Rachell Abalos will read her children’s book, Our Nipa Hut: A Story in the Philippines, which tells an illustrated story set in the Philippines about a family preparing for a tropical storm. Then help craft a hut with other attendees.
Best for ages 4+.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Once Upon a Time
Date: Saturday the 2nd
Time: 2 pm
Address: 2207 Honolulu Ave., Montrose, CA 91020
Website: https://www.shoponceuponatime.com/event/our-nipa-hut
Creative Writing Group at Central Library, LAPL – In-Person Event
Calling all writers of fiction, screenplays, poetry, etc. Get feedback on your writing in a fun, supportive environment. Meetings include a writing prompt/exercise, snacks, and a rollicking good time! Whether you are just starting out or well on your way to glory, join us and banish (at least temporarily) those Lonely Writer Blues!
RSVP:
Please RSVP by emailing fiction@lapl.org today.
NOTE: See site for RSVP and details.
Where: Central Library, LAPL, Meeting Room B
Date: Saturday the 2nd
Time: 3 pm – 5 pm
Address: 630 W. 5th St., Los Angeles, CA 90071
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/writers-group-0
Expressions L.A. Poetry Reading Series and Open Mic at Studio City Branch Library, LAPL – In-Person & Online Hybrid Event
Join us in-person or via Zoom for Expressions L.A. Poetry Reading Series, featuring poetry readings and poetry open mic.
RSVP:
Please email studio@lapl.org for participation details.
NOTE: See site for RSVP and details.
Where: Studio City Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Saturday the 2nd
Time: 3 pm – 5 pm
Address: 12511 Moorpark St., Studio City, CA 91604
Website: https://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/expressions-la-poetry-reading-series-and-open-mic-3
Saturday Afternoon Poetry: Poetry Zine Writing Workshop – Online Event
Hosted by DKC and Marvin Louis Dorsey,join a Poetry Zine Writing Workshop.
(Submit up to 3 poems totaling no more than 150 lines including the subject of or at least mentioning pie or sigh for Four Feathers Press online edition: Pie Sighs by emailing donkingfishercampbell@gmail.com by 11:59pm, March 15th).
Don Kingfisher Campbell hosts and curates these events.
Where: Saturday Afternoon Poetry
Date: Saturday the 2nd
Time: 3 pm – 5 pm
Address: Online Event (see site)
Website: http://saturdayafternoonpoetry.blogspot.com/
Soyoung Park & Snowglobe at Vroman’s – In-Person Event
Soyoung Park and the Korean Cultural Center of Los Angeles (KCCLA) will present her book, Snowglobe.
Translated for the first time into English from the original Korean, Snowglobe is a groundbreaking exploration of personal identity, and the future of the world as we know it. It is the winner of the Changbi X Kakaopage Young Adult Novel Award. (Delacorte Press)
Dedicated to Expanding Knowledge of Korea, the Korean Cultural Center is the axis of Korean heritage in Los Angeles. The Korean Cultural Center welcomes the general public to experience the rich traditions and history of Korea through specialized programs, sponsored events, and multiple learning resources. Operated by the Korean government’s Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, the Korean Cultural Center is dedicated to providing insights into the rich cultural heritage of Korea.
Soyoung Park majored in communication and media at university. She is a winner of the Original Story Award and the Changbi X Kakaopage Young Adult Novel Award. She is the author of the Snowglobe duology.
Joungmin Lee Comfort is a Korean-English translator. Her translations have appeared in Clarkesworld Magazine and Best of World SF. Her recent cotranslation of Kim Bo-young’s On the Origin of Species and Other Stories was longlisted for the National Book Award for translated literature.
NOTE: See site for RSVP and details.
Where: Vroman’s
Date: Saturday the 2nd
Time: 3 pm
Address: 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101
Website: https://www.vromansbookstore.com/Soyoung-Park-discusses-Snowglobe
Poetry Event: Crista Dawn & Stumbling Towards Dawn at The Book Jewel, Westchester – In-Person Event
Christa Dawn will read and discuss her collection Stumbling Towards Dawn, a poignant collection of poems reflecting on her life-changing journey.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: The Book Jewel
Date: Saturday the 2nd
Time: 6 pm
Address: 6259 W. 87th St., Westchester, Los Angeles, CA 90045
Website: https://www.thebookjewel.com/events
Monthly Open Mic Eventat LibroMobile, Sant Ana – In-Person Event
Join us for an evening of our monthly open mic at LibroMobile, hosted by Local Poet Kunthon “Katon” Meas.
He’ll be featuring local writers & hold the mic for all of you!
We hope to keep up with our tradition of prioritizing BIPOC voices as well as honoring a safe space for all.
We’re a community in various stages of our writing & performing experience. We aspire to cultivate a space of empowerment, not a critical feedback or workshop circle.
NOTE: See site for details. RSVP
Where: LibroMobile
Date: Saturday the 2nd
Time: 6 pm – 8 pm
Address: 1150 S. Bristol St., Suite A3, Santa Ana, CA 92704
Website: https://www.libromobile.com/event-details/libromobile-monthly-open-mic-2024-03-02-18-00
Ladies of the Mic, in Collaboration with Pages on Stages Open Mic at Sims Library of Poetry – In-Person & Online Hybrid Event
In honor of Women’s History Month, Ladies of the Mic event will be hosted at a reading at the Sims Library of Poetry, featuring:
Anastasia Helena Fenald is a second generation Ukranian Hispanic American poet and author from the California high desert.Her first poetry collection Help Me, I’m Here: Poems to Myself, was published by the World Stage Press. She has also been published in Sheila-Na-Gig Online Journal, Acid Verse Literary Journal, The Sims Library of Poetry’s anthology Poems in Praise of Libraries, innateDIVINITY books’ anthology A Case for the Personhood of Trees, A Thousand Flowers Anthology, Lit Stack, and more. The Art of Job Hunting is her second poetry collection.
Funky Sunshine, aka Heather P, is a published Author, a Poet and a former elementary school teacher in Glendale, CA. She loves reading and writing, both tools she uses in every aspect of life, creatively, professionally, personally, and socially.
Queen Ashay is a comedienne, Actress, Producer, Media Personality and Humanitarian.
Where: Sims Library of Poetry
Date: Saturday the 2nd
Time: 6 pm
Address: 2702 W. Florence Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90043
Website: N/A (Check to Verify)
Griot Café Open Mic with Sistah Shy & Samuel Rain & Featured Guest at Shades of Africa, Long Beach – In-Person Event
Sistah Shy & Samuel Rain host the Griot Café Open Mic & Poetry event every Saturday evening at Shades of Africa in Long Beach. See site to subscribe for reminders, etc.
Where: Griot Café at Shades of Africa
Date: Saturday the 2nd
Time: 8 pm – 10 pm
Address: 1001 E. 4th St., Long Beach, CA 90802
Website: https://shadesofafrika.com/griot-cafe-open-mic-poetry/
Children’s Storytime: Heather Alexander & The Good Luck Book at Village Well Books & Coffee – In-Person Kids Event
Have you ever wished on an eyelash? Said “rabbit rabbit” on the first day of the month? Do you wonder why we blow out candles on a cake or cross our fingers for good luck? In this fun, interactive event for kids and families, we’ll explore fascinating traditions and superstitions from all over the world—and hunt for real four-leaf clovers, too!
Heather Alexander is the author of The Good Luck Book: A Celebraion of Global Traditions, Superstitions and Folklore. For ages 7-11.
Make sure to RSVP on our EVENTBRITE!
Where: Village Well Books & Coffee
Date: Sunday the 3rd
Time: 11 am – 12 pm
Address: 9900 Culver Blvd., #1B, Culver City, CA 90232
Website: https://shop.villagewell.com/events/34302
Children’s Book Reading: Stephanie Owens & Kayla Victor & My First Female President at Octavia’s Bookshelf – In-Person Kids & Family Event
Join author Stephanie Owens and Illustrator Kayla Victor for a reading and discussion about their delightful children’s book My First Female President!! This story is filled with encouragement, inspiration, and aspiration!
This book is one of two currently in the series entitled “All My Firsts”, which highlights children with unique characteristics, with hopes to promote embracing and celebrating many differences!
NOTE: See site for RSVP and details.
Where: Octavia’s Bookshelf
Date: Sunday the 3rd
Time: 11 am – 1pm
Address: 1365 N. Hill Ave., Pasadena, CA 91104
Website: https://www.octaviasbookshelf.com/events/my-first-female-president-childrens-reading
6th Anniversary LibroMobile Literary Arts Festival Off-site at Fullerton Museum Center (FMC) – In-Person Event
Join the 6th Anniversary LibroMobile Literary Arts Festival!
We will be presenting the Modesta Avila Award, Literary Readings & Workshops, Art Vendors, Música y Más!
Schedule below:
12-2pm: 12-1pm Creative Workshop for Adults (16+) and 1-2pm Arts & Crafts Children’s Workshop hosted by FMC
2:00pm Opening Performance:
Drag King Storytime with Vik Floyd
3:30pm SanTana Poets y Más: Youth Poet Natalie Rodriguez Merino, Getzemany Sandoval Bayardo, Margaret E. Garcia and Teresa Lefranc & OC Poet Laureate Gustavo Hernandez
4:30pm Collaborative Performance by local ukulele musician Steve Camarillo
5:30pm OC Prose Writers: Diana Burbano, Agatha Isabel, Marytza K. Rubio and Quan Huynh
6pm Modesta Avila Award y Keynote Speaker: Ysa Le & the Vietnamese American Arts & Letters Association
6:30-7:30pm Canela Deya opening for Milpa Musica
NOTE: See site for details and RSVP.
Where: LibroMobile at Fullerton Museum Center
Date: Sunday the 3rd
Time: 12 pm – 8 pm
Address: 301 N. Pomona Ave, Fullerton, CA 92632
Website: https://www.libromobile.com/event-details or https://allevents.in/fullerton/6th-anniversary-libromobile-literary-arts-festival
Zine Workshop with Ellie Reisat The Pop Hop – In-Person Event
Zines are an amazing, accessible form of creative expression, community building, and political activism. They’re a huge part of our community at The Pop-Hop, and we’re stoked that local artist ELLIE REIS will be leading a zine-making workshop in our space. Come and learn the basics of zine making, while you chill and network with other creative community members.
All materials provided! $5 suggested donation, RSVP below!
NOTE: See site for RSVP and details.
Where: The Pop Hop
Date: Sunday the 3rd
Time: 1 pm – 3 pm
Address: 5002 York Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90042
Website: https://www.thepophop.com/calendar/2024/2/18/zine-workshop-with-ellie-reis
Storytime: Zohreh Ghahremani & Memory Garden with Once Upon a Time – In-Person Kids Event
Children’s author Zohreh Ghahremani will share her beautiful debut picture book Memory Garden, illustrated by her daughter Susie Ghahremani.
This story is about family and nature coming together through time and connection. For the event, Zohreh will read her book, answer questions from the audience, and then sign books. Best for ages 4+.
NOTE: See site for RSVP and details.
Where: Once Upon a Time
Date: Sunday the 3rd
Time: 2 pm
Address: 2207 Honolulu Ave., Montrose, CA 91020
Website: https://www.shoponceuponatime.com/event/memory-garden
Simbiosis: Poetry of Interconnection with: Ivy Raff, Briana Munoz & Leslie Ortega at Tia Chucha’s Centro Cultural & Bookstore – In-Person Event
Join writers Ivy Raff, Briana Munoz, and Leslie Ortega for an afternoon of poetry exploring poetry on interconnectedness. In a time of climate and political crises – which inevitably bleed into our interpersonal connections – how can we uncover the roots of our compassion? How do we build communities, families, cultures, and selves that honor our interconnected fates?
Ivy Raff is the author of What Remains / Qué queda (bilingual English/Spanish edition, Editorial DALYA forthcoming 2024), winner of the Alberola International Poetry Prize, and Rooted and Reduced to Dust (Finishing Line Press, 2024), hailed by Pulitzer finalist Bruce Smith as “lacerating, fearless.” Following a twenty-year career in health technology and public policy, Ivy shifted her focus to writing in 2021. She works with an array of community-based and grassroots organizations as a freelance copywriter, translator, and website designer, and serves on the editorial teams of Reckoning, a literary journal on environmental justice, and Seventh Wave Magazine.
Leslie Ortega is a poet mycologist currently living in Los Angeles. In 2020, she self-published her first poetry collection that focuses on admiring and challenging the norms of family, love, and trust. She has performed her poetry at Beyond Baroque, Sims Library of Poetry, and All Power Books among many local organizations. She believes that the more we are able to find ourselves as a part of nature, the more we will be able to care for one another and break systems of oppression.
Briana Munoz crafts “poetry written without shame.” A traditional indigenous Mexika dancer from Southern California, she is the author of two books of poetry, Loose Lips (Prickly Pear Publishing) and Everything is Returned to the Soil (FlowerSong Press)
NOTE: See site for RSVP and details.
Where: Tia Chuca’s Centro Cultural & Bookstore
Date: Sunday the 3rd
Time: 2 pm – 3:30 pm
Address: 12677 Glenoaks Ave., Sylmar, CA 91342
Website: https://calendar.boomte.ch/registration/
Mystery Book Club at West Los Angeles Regional Branch Library, LAPL – In-Person Event
Join this Mystery Book Club which meets on the first Sunday of each month to discuss a mystery, thriller, or suspense book picked by the group. Copies of the book are available for check-out at the West Los Angeles Branch Library.
NOTE: See site for RSVP and details.
Where: West Los Angeles Regional Branch Library, LAPL
Date: Sunday the 3rd
Time: 2 pm – 4 pm
Address: 11360 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90025
Website: https://lapl.org/whats-on/events/mystery-book-club-32
Author Event: An Evening with Mona Gable, with Sarah Grant, & Searching for Savannah at Bel Canto Books, KUBO LB – In-Person Event
Bel Canto Books at KUBO LB is hosting an Evening with author Mona Gable, in conversation with Sarah Grant, to discuss her book Searching for Savannah: The Murder of One Native American Woman and the Violence against the Many.
In the summer of 2017, twenty-two-year-old Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind vanished. A week after she disappeared, police arrested the white couple who lived upstairs from Savanna and emerged from their apartment carrying an infant girl. The baby was Savanna’s, but Savanna’s body would not be found for days.
The horrifying crime sent shock waves far beyond Fargo, North Dakota, where it occurred, and helped expose the sexual and physical violence Native American women and girls have endured since the country’s colonization.
With pathos and compassion, Searching for Savanna confronts this history of dehumanization toward Indigenous women and the government’s complicity in the crisis. Featuring in-depth interviews, personal accounts, and trial analysis, this timely book investigates these injustices and the decades-long struggle by Native American advocates for meaningful change.
Mona Gable is a freelance writer based in Los Angeles. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, Outside, AFAR, the Los Angeles Times, and many others. Her article in Los Angeles magazine, “The Hugo Problem,” was named a Longreads Best of 2015. Find out more at Mona-Gable.com.
Sarah G. Grant is Associate Professor of Anthropology at California State University, Fullerton. Her research uses ethnographic methods to understand the human experiences of industrial agriculture, climate change, and precarity in contemporary Vietnam. She is finishing her first book length manuscript about industrial coffee production in the Central Highlands of Vietnam. Learn more about Dr. Grant at https://sarahggrant.com/.
NOTE: See site for RSVP and details.
Where: Bel Canto Books KUBO
Date: Sunday the 3rd
Time: 4 pm
Address: 3976 Atlantic Ave., Long Beach, CA 90807
Website: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mona-gable-searching-for-savanna-tickets-837770653577
Alejandra Dubcovsky & Talking Back: Native Women and the Making of the Early South at Cellar Door Bookstore – In-Person Event
Author Alejandra Dubcovsky will present and discuss her book, Talking Back: Native Women and the Making of the Early South.
Associate professor at UCR and author/historian, Alejandra Dubcovsky will present and talk about her book Talking Back: Native Women and the Making of the Early South, sponsored by UCR Center for Ideas & Society.
Historian Alejandra Dubcovsky tells a story of war, slavery, loss, remembrance, and the women whose resilience and resistance transformed the colonial South. In exploring their lives she rewrites early American history, challenging the established male-centered narrative. Dubcovsky reconstructs the lives of Native women—Timucua, Apalachee, Chacato, and Guale—to show how they made claims to protect their livelihoods, bodies, and families. Through the stories of the Native cacica who demanded her authority be recognized; the elite Spanish woman who turned her dowry and household into a source of independent power; the Floridiana who slapped a leading Native man in the town square; and the Black woman who ran a successful business at the heart of a Spanish town, Dubcovsky reveals the formidable women who claimed and used their power, shaping the history of the early South.
Alejandra Dubcovsky is an associate professor of history at the University of California, Riverside. She is also the inaugural fellow in the Program for the Advancement of the Humanities, a partnership of The Huntington and UC Riverside that aims to support the future of the humanities. Her first book, Informed Power: Communication in the Early American South (2016), won the 2016 Michael V. R. Thomason Book Award from the Gulf South Historical Association, another NMA, both in 2014. She was longlisted for the CBC short story award and a finalist for a Glimmer Train Prize and was on the editorial board at echolocation between 2013 and 2015.
NOTE: See site for details.
Where: Cellar Door Bookstore
Date: Sunday the 3rd
Time: 4 pm
Address: 473 E. Alessandro Blvd., Suite B, Riverside, CA 92508
Website: https://www.cellardoorbookstore.com/talkingback
Sunday Jump: Women’s History Month Open Mic at Kapistahan Grill – In-Person Event
March is Women’s History Month! We are committed to centering and uplifting women of color narratives—this month, and always. With this amazing line up, you won’t want to miss it!
Samantha Parks/Bulls Daughter, Guest Host
DJ AkikoLUV, Guest DJ
Sue Jin Kim, Singer/Songwriter
Miztlayolxochitl, Poet
Jenny Yang, Comedian
Eza B., Visual Artist
Where: Kapistahan Grill
Date: Sunday the 3rd
Time: 5 pm – 7 pm (Sign-ups at 4:45 pm)
Address: 1925 W. Temple St., Los Angeles, CA 90026
Author Conversation: Jane Wolf Frances, with Kathy Eldon, & Parenting Our Parents at Village Well Books & Coffee – In-Person Event
Author Jane Wolf Frances, in conversation with Kathy Eldon, will present and discuss her book, Parenting Our Parents: Transforming the Challenge into a Journey of Love, followed by a Q&A.
If you want to make your aging loved ones’ latter years into a journey of love – for you and them – but don’t know how, come listen and learn!
Jane Wolf Frances, M.S.W., J.D., is a licensed psychotherapist, attorney, and the founder of ParentingOurParents™(POP) and its unique POP Family Coaching Program that helps families with aging seniors successfully navigate the many confusing, complex, practical, emotional, financial, and legal challenges.
Kathy Eldon has worked as a teacher, journalist, author and film and television producer in England, Africa, and the US. Kathy launched Creative Visions, inspired by the life of her son, Dan Eldon – artist, activist, and photojournalist – killed at the age of 22 in 1993, while on assignment for Reuters in Somalia. The organization has impacted more than 100 million people.
Where: Village Well Books & Coffee
Date: Sunday the 3rd
Time: 5 pm – 6 pm
Address: 9900 Culver Blvd., #1B, Culver City, CA 90232
Website: https://shop.villagewell.com/events/33240
Queer Romance Book Club: Payback’s a Witch at The Ripped Bodice – In-Person Event
March’s Queer Romance Book Club participants will discuss Payback’s a Bitch (The Witches of Thistle Grow #1), by author Lana Harper. Bookseller Binta leads this book club. Please join us.
Emmy Harlow is a witch but not a very powerful one—in part because she hasn’t been home to the magical town of Thistle Grove in years. Her self-imposed exile has a lot to do with a complicated family history and a desire to forge her own way in the world, and only the very tiniest bit to do with Gareth Blackmoore, heir to the most powerful magical family in town and casual breaker of hearts and destroyer of dreams.
But when a spellcasting tournament that her family serves as arbiters for approaches, it turns out the pull of tradition (or the truly impressive parental guilt trip that comes with it) is strong enough to bring Emmy back. She’s determined to do her familial duty; spend some quality time with her best friend, Linden Thorn; and get back to her real life in Chicago. Or is she?
Lana Harper is the author of four YA novels about modern-day witches and historical murderesses. Born in Serbia, she grew up in Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria before moving to the US, where she studied psychology and literature at Yale University, law at Boston University, and publishing at Emerson College. She recently moved to Chicago with her family.
No membership is necessary, feel free to show up!
NOTE: See site for tickets, guidelines, and details.
Where: The Ripped Bodice
Date: Sunday the 3rd
Time: 7:15 pm – 8:30 pm
Address: Main Street, Culver City, CA 90323
Website: https://www.therippedbodicela.com/events-and-tickets
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